Using icons and stereotypes of American popular culture, Gary Simmons creates works that address personal and collective experiences of race and class. He is best known for his “erasure drawings,” in which he draws in white chalk on slate-painted panels or walls, then smudges them with his hands – a technique that renders their imagery ghostly. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the MCA Chicago, The Walker Art Center and the Whitney Museum of American Art among others. Gary Simmons is represented by Metro Pictures Gallery in New York, Simon Lee Gallery in London, Regen Projects in Los Angeles and Anthony Meier Gallery in San Francisco.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS2017Drawings from the Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtUrban Planning, Contemporary Art Museum St. LouisExcerpt, Studio Museum in Harlem, New YorkAn Incomplete History of Protest, Whitney Museum, New YorkI am you, you are too, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

2016Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney Collection, The Whitney Museum, New YorkPaulson Bott Press: Celebrating Twenty Years, de Young Museum, San Francisco